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Three cornerstones for Germany’s Feminist Development Policy

Friesen, Ina / Alma Wisskirchen (2022)
The Current Column, 02. May 2022

To ensure that commitment for feminist development policy (FDP) leads to a truly transformative feminist approach in Germany's development policy, it should be built on three key pillars.

Science for the global common good

Hornidge, Anna-Katharina (2022)
External Publications

Why we should talk about megatrends in Africa

Erforth, Benedikt / Lena Gutheil (2022)
External Publications

Megatrends have become ubiquitous phenomena in public policy debates. A thorough understanding of what this concept entails is often missing. We address this gap by unpacking the notion “megatrend” and tracing the significance it has for understanding the transformation of African societies.

A green strategy to defuse the “debt bomb”

Volz, Ulrich (2022)
External Publications

Europe’s global gateway: a new geostrategic framework for development policy?

Furness, Mark / Niels Keijzer (2022)
Briefing Paper 1/2022

The proposal to build a 'Global Gateway' to the world is potentially a major turning point in EU foreign relations. It will create a new paradigm for EU development policy defined by strategic interests, but is likely to weaken the EU’s commitment to core development policy principles.

Duisburg’s other Silk Road: revisiting international cooperation

Kloke-Lesch, Adolf / Imme Scholz (2022)
External Publications

When cooperation meets negotiations: an approach to address the complexity of transformation to sustainability

Hernandez, Ariel (2022)
External Publications

3D-Digital Development Dialogue "The Climate Crisis is Now"

Online, 28. April 2022

The 3D seminar is a monthly 45-minute online forum for policy and research exchange. Two speakers – one researcher & one practitioner – touch upon key topics in development policy with the goal of stimulating a meaningful dialogue across the theory & practice divide. Speakers: Veronika Bertram (KfW) Daniel Clarke (Center for Disaster…

Cultural sensitivity and ethnographic research with migrants

Jaji, Rose (2022)
External Publications

Jan Siebert

Jan Siebert is Economist and former Researcher of the Research Programme "Transformation of Economic and Social Systems".

Governing Planetary Health in an Unequal World

Online, 27. April 2022

The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of planetary health – a framework that recognizes the interdependence of human, animal and environmental health – in a world marred by the climate change and biodiversity crises, as well as growing inequalities between and within countries. With the WHO’s calls for vaccine equity…

Social Cohesion in Africa: Where do we stand? Where are we heading to?

Online, 26. April 2022

This is the third event of the Social Cohesion Webinar Series, organized by the Social Sustainability and Inclusion Global Practice Team at the World Bank and the Social Cohesion Team at the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE). The purpose of this seminar series is bringing together leading…

Aligning the financial system with net-zero emissions

Online, 26. April 2022

Finance is critical to achieving deep decarbonisation by 2050. Article 2.i.c of the 2015 Paris Agreement sets out the goal of “making finance flows consistent with a pathway towards low greenhouse gas emissions and climate-resilient development”. Across the financial system, banks and investors need not only to analyse and mitigate…

Bold steps are needed to tackle the emerging food crisis

Brüntrup, Michael (2022)
The Current Column, 25. April 2022

Practical initiatives are required to counter the effects of the Ukraine war, but there is also a need to update the way the global food system is governed in the long term.

Urbanisation and rural development in developing countries: a review of pathways and impacts

Sakketa, Tekalign Gutu (2022)
Discussion Paper 5/2022

This paper reviews the current state of literature on the impacts of urbanisation on rural development in developing countries, with special emphasis to the channels through which urbanisation affect rural economic development.The paper also identifies knowledge gaps that require further research.

Decolonising Discourse Studies

Hybrid (Online and Augsburg University), 21. April 2022

Discourse Studies have an important record of analysing all types of open and subtle discrimination in and through discourses. Racism in all its varieties is one of the most researched topics in discourse studies. However, the influence of postcolonialism and eurocentrism in discourse studies itself has seldom been object of deeper…

WTO 2.0 – Making the multilateral trading system fit for the 21st century and how the G7 can help

Mildner, Stormy-Annika / Claudia Schmucker / Clara Brandi / Anja von Moltke / Marianne Schneider-Petsinger / Jeffrey J. Schott / Davide Tentori (2022)
External Publications

Do not neglect African security

Bergmann, Julian / Niels Keijzer (2022)
External Publications

The Ukraine war has important implications for the EU’s cooperation with African countries regarding security and peace. Policymakers must pay attention.

Escaping from the debt trap

Berensmann, Kathrin (2022)
External Publications

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